All UX Brainstorming Templates Under 1 Tool

Have you ever feel frustrated while managing your research data or brainstorming ideas in UX. Sometimes It takes me so much time to organize research data into visually appealing templates, While going through this issue, I saw adobe introducing its new plugin “Whiteboard” for Adobe Xd. This excites me a lot and I installed this plugin to get to know more about this. It is really awesome. Today I will share my experience with you guys and tell how it can help you a lot in your design process.

What is Whiteboard?

Whiteboard is a visual collaboration plugin to bring distributed teams together in Adobe XD. The plugin focuses on collaborative ideation and sketching to help design teams innovate anywhere, anytime. Especially for those who have started working from home, this plugin will allow people to enjoy whiteboarding while remaining in one app — XD. Whiteboard allows innovative teams to get work done remotely using popular design thinking and agile frameworks as well as freeform drawing while leveraging XD’s real-time Coediting.

Let’s Explore Whiteboard

There are almost all templated available in this plugin named “Whiteboard” runs in Adobe Xd. I am mentioning some templates here and also mention the use of each template, Let’s get started.

Whiteboard has listed these templates under the main three categories with subcategories as following. Let discuss these templates with more details.

Brainstorming

1. Affinity Diagram
2. Business Model Canvas
3. Card Sorting
4. Customer Journey Map
5. Design Thinking Canvas
6. Empathy Map
7. Hopes and Fears
8. Impact and Effort Matrix
9. Persona and Use Cases
10. Stakeholder Map
11. SWOT Analysis
12. Whiteboard Exercise Canvas

Drawing

1. Sketching Wireframes-Mobile App-page
2. Sketching Wireframes- Web Page
3. Storyboards
4. User Clock Sketch

Flowcharts

1. Flow Chart- Complex
2. Flow Chart- Simple

Mind Map

1. MindMap 1.0
2. MindMap 2.0

Team Management

1. Daily Stand Up
2. Kanban
3. Meeting Notes
4. Retrospective
5. Roadmap with Teams

Some Brainstorming Templates

1. Affinity diagram

An affinity diagram is a method used to organize many ideas into groups with common themes or relationships. Affinity diagrams are tools for analyzing large amounts of data and discovering relationships that allow a design direction to be established based on the associations.

2. Business modal canvas

Business Model Canvas is a strategic management and lean startup template for developing new business models. This approach was developed by Alexander Osterwalder (2012). Describe, design, and pivot your existing business model or developing new ones. Useful for hands-on tools for strategy and innovation.

3. Card sorting

Designers and researchers use card sorting as a tool used to determine the way information is grouped, labeled, and organized within a site or app by allowing users to sort topics into categories that make sense to them.

4. Customer journey map

Journey mapping starts by compiling a series of user goals and actions into a timeline skeleton. Next, the skeleton is fleshed out with user thoughts and emotions in order to create a narrative. Finally, that narrative is condensed into a visualization used to communicate insights that will inform design processes.

5. Design Thinking Canvas

This is a structured approach to successful design-led strategy and innovation. This approach can be used for a wide variety of projects and walks you through the steps of the design thinking from People to Impact.

6. Empathy Map

An empathy map is a collaborative visualization used to articulate what we know about a particular type of user. It externalizes knowledge about users in order to create a shared understanding of user needs, and aid in decision making.

7. Hopes and Fears

The hopes and fears activity is an effective way to gauge participants’ attitudes about a project, workshop, or any other collaborative engagement. “Hopes” reveal your teams’ expectations about what can be accomplished. “Fears” reveal their doubts about making an investment to work together.

8. Persona and Use Cases

Personas are fictional characters, which you create based upon your research in order to represent the different user types. Use cases help you to think about who will be using the design and focuses on features that will engage and give users value.

9. Stakeholder Map

Stakeholder Mapping is a process of collectively identifying the key stakeholders relating to a project. The three-step process involves identifying all individuals who have an interest in the project outcome, grouping them, finding connections, and deciding what matters for each. Stakeholder Mapping helps you ensure you have the right representation of voices.

10. SWOT Analysis

A SWOT Analysis is a method to evaluate strengths (S), weaknesses (W), opportunities (O), and threats (T). A process first developed at Harvard Business School in the 1950s, it can also be used by designers, PMs, and engineers to evaluate products, services, and strategies. Those four factors evaluate both internal and external factors related to a specific project,
service, or strategy. Also, a great exercise is to run a SWOT Analysis of your competition.

I have listed some templates above with their meaning, I hope you understood these all templates. Try them out and I am sure it will definitely help your team to get better collaboration. If you still don’t know how to get this plugin, Simply open adobe xd, Open plugins, search whiteboard, and here you go, You have successfully installed Whiteboard plugin in Adobe Xd.

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